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DECEMBER 2014 · VOLUME 24 & ISSUE 12
A MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE GREATER LOUISVILLE MEDICAL SOCIETY
POLICY & ADVOCACY
TEAM GEARS UP FOR
SESSION
The GLMS Policy and
Advocacy Team met
recently to prepare
for the Kentucky
Legislative Session
which begins in
January 2015.
Although the session will be a brief
one, only 30 days
Cory Meadows, KMA Advocacy Director, spoke to
long, opportunities
GLMS members about KMA’s plans for the 2015 legislastill abound to make
tive session.
progress on numerous health care issues. One purpose of the November meeting was to
determine issues where the attention of physicians would make the most
difference in the brief time allotted.
Several other organizations visited the P&A meeting with presentations
about legislative concerns including electronic cigarettes, women’s issues, Smoke-free Kentucky and POLST/MOST. GLMS Member Courtney
Schadt, MD, of the Kentucky Dermatology Society visited as well, asking
GLMS to consider a more
active position on efforts
to make tanning bed use
illegal for minors.
KMA Director of Advocacy and Legal Affairs Cory
Meadows then spoke
to members of the P&A
Team to outline some
of the Kentucky Medical
Association’s legislative Julie Lee, MD, and Tracy Ragland, MD, discussed
priorities for the coming the focus of the P&A team this year.
CALLING ALL
ASPIRING AUTHORS
The Greater Louisville Medical Society welcomes aspiring
physician authors to take part in the eighth annual Richard
Spear, MD, Memorial Essay Contest.
Divided into two categories, practicing/retired physicians
and in-training physicians/medical students, the memorial
essay contest allows our members a creative outlet to talk
about their personal health care experiences.
Practicing and retired physicians are asked to consider
“Medicine and the Unexpected.” It can be something
as large as the recent Ebola scare, or as small as how a
single fact changed a medical case you were involved in.
For physicians-in-training and medical students, this year’s
contest focuses on the opportunities and challenges of
being a physician in the present and not-so-distant future.
Your category is “Using Technology in Medicine Without
Becoming a Medical Robot.”
Each entry in both categories will be considered on excellence in expression, creativity, readability and clarity by the
all-volunteer judges. Each entry must be between 800-2,000
words. The deadline for the entries is Monday, March 2, 2015.
For practicing and retired physicians, the first place winner
will receive a prize of $1,500. The first place in our physiciansin-training/medical student category will receive $750. At
the judges’ discretion, an honorable mention may also be
awarded.
The winning essays will be published in the July issue of Louisville Medicine. Many of the other entries will be published
in subsequent issues as determined by the Editorial Board.
For this contest, all entries must be original, unpublished
writing intended solely for publication in Louisville Medicine
and pertinent to the themes. Please use a separate cover
letter with your name, entry category, essay title and contact
information as judges are blinded to authors.
Send entries via e-mail as an attachment to Aaron Burch
at [email protected]. Email submissions are highly
preferred, but if not possible, send entry by fax to (502) 7366341 or by mail to GLMS, 101 W. Chestnut St., Louisville, KY
40202. Please note that only GLMS members are eligible.